Portable scoop rack



I May 13, 1930.

CURLE PORTABLE SCOOP RACK Filed Oct. 15, 1928 Patented May 7 13, 1930 UNITED, STATES PATIENT oFFIcI:

-c+nonen L. cumin, or MINNEAroLIs, iar NnsorA, AssIGNon TO, THE MONOMELT COMPANY, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION or MINNESOTA rom'nnnn soooi? RACK Application filed October 15, 1928, seriarN 'smAsm My present invention has for its object to provide a simple and highly eflicient portable scoop rack intended for general use but especially well adapted for use in printing shops, composing rooms and the like in col lecting and holding broken up type forms commonly called .killouts to be refed into the auxiliary melting pot of a linotype machine or a melting furnace and formed into bars to be fed into the main melting potof a linotype machine not equipped with an auxiliary melting pot.

This rack is designed to be moved from place to place to receive a killout from a make-up truck or killout stone and in its preferred form holds a plurality. of scoops, cer tain of which are arranged to collect and hold a killout, others of which are held in storage either filled or empty'and still othersare arranged to receive and ,hold the spill or over: flow from the scoops beingv filled or from the full scoops as they are moved in the rack.

To the above end, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices and coma 25 binations-of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims; f

In the accompanying drawings,-which il lustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

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Fig. 1'is a perspective view of the portable scoop rack positioned to receive a klllOHt-fIOlll a'killout stone;

Fig. 2 is a view in central vertical section of the parts shown in Fig; 1,on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 3 is a plan of Fig. 1; and a a Fig. 4 is a fragmentary "perspective view showing the rack positioned to receive a kill out from a make-up truck. 1 Y

The portable scoop rack includes a sheet metal shell supported on wheels 6 and-having an open top and front. Attached to each side of'the shell 5'is a handle 7 by which the rack may be moved. Secured within the shell 5 above the bottom thereof are four vertically spaced shelves 8. These shelves 8'are flat and the three lowermost thereof extendin the rack as shown in substantially true horizontal positionswhile the uppermost shelf 8 is upwardly and rear iwardly inclined. All ofthe shelves 8 are terminated short of the back of the shell 5 to leave avertical passageway-.therebetween. At the front longitudinal edge of the uppermost shelf 8' is an upstanding stop flange 10 and in the top of'said shell '5 are front and rear deflecting flanges 11 and 12, respectively.

These flanges. 1 1 and 12 are in hopper-like arrangement and the former-thereof is relatlvely wide whilethe latter is relatively narrow so that their lower longitudinal-edge portions extend in a plane substantially parallel to the inclined uppermost shelf 18.

Four divider bars 13 extend from the front to the rear of the shell 5' and are rigidly se-f cured at their ends to the deflecting flangesll and 12 near their lower longitudinal edge portio'ns and divide the open hopper top ofthe shell 5 into four equally spaced passageways. These divider bars 13 in cross section are in the form of inverted Vs. A gravity closed door lt ishinged at its upper longitudinal edge portion to the under side of tliedeflectmg flange 11 and is provided with'a handle 15 by which it may be raised or lowered.

At the lower end of the passageway 9 is a deflecting flange '16'secured to the back of the shell 5 with its upper edge substantially in the plane of the lower most shelf-8 and ex.

tending'therefrom between said lower shelf 1 scoops 1-7 on-the'upper shelf 8 and deflect inaterialsldumped into "the opentop of the rackinto the four uppermost scoops 17 and prevent said materials from falling therebetween. The stop flange 10 holds the inclined scoop 17in position on the upper shelf 8 and prevents the same from sliding forward thereon. The door 14 at its free longitudinal edge normally rests on the sides of the uppermost scoop 17 at their front ends and prevents materials discharged into said scoops from rolling or sliding out the front ends thereof. H

When the scoops 1 7 are properly positioned on the shelves 8 their rear ends terminate short of the back of the shell 5 and do not entirely obstruct or close the passageway 9.

Any 'spill or overflow of materials ffrom'the scoops 17 into the passageway 9 will, during its precipitation, strike the deflecting flange l6 and be directed thereby into the row of scoops 17 on the bottom of the shell 5, as indicated by arrows in Fig. 2. lVhen the scoops 17 on the top shelf 8 are full they may be interchanged with empty scoops 17 on the other-shelves 8 or the contents thereof may be dumped into the auxiliarymelting pot offa linotype machine or into a melting furnace.

To collect a killout A form a killoutstone Y B, as shown'in Fig. l",.the rack is Wheeled into a position in which the front edge portion of said stone overlies the back of'the'rack so Y that said killoutmay be scraped or shoved into the hopper: topof the rack Where the same is distributed bythe bars 13 into the T entire make-up C or any part thereof may be loosened from the chase E in the well known manner and then said chase slid on the top of the table D intoa position in which it overhangs the hopper top of the rack to per Init the released type form to be precipitated into said rack and be distributed by the bars 13 intothe upper row of thescoops 17.

' By the use of the above described rack killouts may be quickly and easilycollected' and transportedto a storage space and the contents in the scoops dumped into an auxiliary melting pot or melting furnace when required. Heretofore, it has been customary to throw killouts in boxes or other receptacles on the floor where there is considerable overfiowand spill. This method of handling Waste type material results in an accumulation of dust and dirt thatis very objectionable in that it produces a great deal of dross at the time said material is being remelted. By the use of my improved portable scoop rack, linotype slugs" and other waste type material may be kept free from dustand dirt. As the uppermost row of scoops 17' are held in a forwardly and downwardly inclined position the materials as they are precipitated therein will slide to the front of said scoop and thereby evenly fill the same.

What I claim is 1 c 1. A rack of the class described comprising a shell having an open hopper top, and a scoop slidably and removably mounted in the shell under the open hopper top thereof.

2. A rack of the class described comprising a shell having an open top, two scoops removably mounted-in the shell under the open top thereof, and a divider bar extending throu'gh the open top of the shell and overlying thejoint between the two scoops.j'

3. Arack of the class described comprisinga shell having-an open hopper top, and a scoop slidably and removably mounted in the shell under the open hopper top thereof and held in arearwardly and upwardly inclined position. 7 i i 1. A rack of the class described comprising a shell having a hopper-like open top, a scoop removably mounted in the shell under the open top thereof and held in a rearwardly and upwardly inclined position,'. the front end portion of the scoop being outward of said open top, and a gravity-closed door hingedto the shell andnormally covering the front end portion of the scoop.

5. A rack of the classdescrib'ed comprising a'shell having a hopper-like open top, two scoops removably mounted in the shell under the open top thereof and held in a rearwardly and upwardlyinclined position, a divider bar in the open'top of the shell extending substantially parallel to thescoops and overlying the joint therebetween, the front end portions of the scoops'being outward of said open top, and a gravity-held door hinged to the shell and normally extending in aforwardly and downwardly. inclined position and covering the front end portions of the scoops. p 1 6. A rack ofythe class described comprising a shell having an open top, upper, lower and intermediate scoopsiremo'vably-mounted a deflector arranged to direct materials precipitated through said passageway into the lower scoop.

7. A rack of thecla-ss described comprising a shell having a hopper-like open top, upper, .lower and intermediate rows of'scoops removably mounted in the shell, the upper row of scoops being in upwardly and rearwardly inclined positions with their front end portions extending outward of said open top, a divider bar extending through the open top of the shelland overlyingthe joint between'the scoops in the upper row,a gravity-closed door hinged to the shell'and' normally extending in a forwardly and downwardlyinclined position and'covering the front end portions of the upper row of scoops.

8. A rack ofthe class described'co'mprising a. portablev wheel-supported shell having a hopper-like open ;top, vertically spaced shelves in the shell spaced from the back thereof to leave a passageway therebetween, the uppermost of said shelves beingunderthe open top of the shell and in a rearwardly and upwardly inclined position, a row of scoops on each shelf and on the bottom of the shell, divider bars extending through the open top of the shell and overlying the joints between adjacent scoops on the upper shelf, a deflector arranged to direct materials precipitated through said passageway into the scoops on the bottom of the shell, the front end portions of the scoops on the upper shelf being ing a shell having a hopper-like opentop,

two scoops removably mounted in the shell under the open top thereof, a divider bar in the open top of the shell and overlying the joint between the two scoops, the front end portions of the scoops being outward of said open top, and a displaceable door normally covering the frontend portions of'the scoops.

11. A rack of the class described comprising a shell having an open top, upper and lower scoops removably mounted in the shell,

the former under the open top thereof, said i upper scoop being positioned in the shell to leave a passageway at the back thereof through. which materials will be precipitated into the lower scoop. V

12. A rack of the class described comprising a shell having an open top, upper, lower and intermediate scoops removably mounted in the shell, said upper and intermediate scoops being spaced from the back of the shell to leave a passageway therebetween, and a deflector arranged to direct materials pre- 'cipitated through said passageway int th 7 lower scoop. c c In testimony whereof I aflix my signatu GEORGE L. CURLE. 

